GEORGIA SHIFTS BREAKBULK OPERATIONS TO BRUNSWICK

Georgia Ports Authority is migrating breakbulk operations at the Port of Savannah’s Ocean Terminal to the Port of Brunswick as part of a longerterm initiative to convert the former into a container-only facility.

The Port of Savannah comprises the deepwater Garden City Terminal, the fourth busiest container handling facility in the U.S., and Ocean Terminal, which handles breakbulk and roll-on, roll-off operations.

However, a plan already sanctioned by GPA to renovate the docks at the 200-acre Ocean Terminal and expand container operations there will see breakbulk cargo carried by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean shifted to Brunswick’s Colonel Island Terminal.

Construction has already begun on 360,000 square feet of new warehousing for auto processing at Colonel

Island, as well as three additional buildings and 85 acres of auto storage space on the south side of the island. According to a spokesperson at GPA, breakbulk cargo currently handled at Ocean Terminal will move to Colonel’s Island between August and September 2023, once the new warehousing is completed. The 85 acres will also start coming online in September 2023, the spokesperson said.

After Baltimore, Brunswick is the second busiest hub for roll-on, roll-off cargo in the U.S., last year moving 650,000 units of vehicles and heavy machinery, 10 percent up on 2020.

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